On the last day, after intense negotiations, the meeting agreed an important new international protocol on access to genetic resources and the fair and equitable sharing of benefits arising from their utilisation (known as Access and Benefit-Sharing, ABS).
Under the protocol, international and national observers would pay regular visits to prisons in countries that sign up.
The Montreal Protocol is the international agreement designed to protect the ozone layer by phasing out production of Cfc's and halons.
Consider the Kyoto Protocol, an international agreement between 181 countries designed to reduce the emissions of gases that cause global warming.
Protocol I on international wars, however, departed substantially from traditional humanitarian law.
In 2002 Germany joined other European nations in ratifying the Kyoto Protocol, an international agreement requiring the EU to reduce carbon dioxide emissions 8% by 2012.
The debate over the participation of developing countries in the Kyoto Protocol, an international treaty to reduce global emissions of greenhouse gases, has stalled ratification of the treaty.
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The ministers, meeting in Trieste, Italy, unanimously expressed "concern about the seriousness" of the phenomenon, and said they would "strive to reach agreement" in July in Bonn at the next set of talks on the Kyoto Protocol, an international treaty on measures to counter climate change.
The December summit in Denmark is intended to secure a new international agreement to replace the Kyoto Protocol, which expires in 2012.
With it have gone fears that international environmental agreements like the Kyoto Protocol on climate change could be made subservient to the WTO's rules on trade.
Plus, they learned that you could not rely on the international community to abide by its own international treaties like the 1925 Geneva protocol against the use of chemical weapons.
However, on two specific and contentious issues, we have consistently found Americans to agree in the range of two-to-one that the U.S. should participate in the International Criminal Court and in the Kyoto Protocol on climate change.
This was passed to implement a protocol on environmental protection following an international treaty.
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South Africa's International Relations Department said the Chief of State Protocol, Bruce Koloane, had been placed on suspension while an investigation took place.
In fact, there is already one international agreement regulating mercury, the United Nations Protocol on Heavy Metals, which entered into force in December 2003.
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But the reality is the official name is used only by Mexican officials who deal with diplomatic protocol and official documents pertaining to international relations.
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The international treaty that limits greenhouse gases, the Kyoto Protocol, doesn't do anything directly about deforestation.
At least seven years of progressively relevant responsible experience, preferably in an international organization, with exposure to diplomatic relations or protocol.
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But it is a choice about their own identity and about signing up to a European view on the world - whether it's the Kyoto protocol or whether it's the international criminal court or whether it's a commitment to working through the UN and through multilateral institutions whenever possible.
Protocol to amend articles 6 and 7 of the Convention on Wetlands of International Importance especially as Waterfowl Habitat.
The Kyoto Protocol, despite its shortcomings, is the closest thing to an effective international treaty that has emerged from U.N. climate talks.
The protocol is aimed primarily at governments in poor countries, which want to use international observers to insist on better behaviour in local prisons.
The proposed Protocol amends the existing Convention in order to bring it into conformity with current international standards on exchange of information, as reflected in the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development's (OECD) Model Tax Convention on Income and Capital and the current U.S. Model Income Tax Convention.
There are some who want to use the review of the 1988 ITRs in December at the World Conference on International Telecommunications (WCIT) as an excuse to impose legacy telecommunications regulation on the Internet and Internet Protocol networks and services.
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